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PATENT OFFICE.

ELLSWORTH E. FLORA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES S.

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TICKET'STAMPING AND VENDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 748,272. dated December 29, 1903. Application filed April 17, 1902. serial No. 103,380. on model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLswoRTH E. FLORA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket-Stamping and Vending Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to machines for time-stain ping and vending tickets, such as accident-insurance tickets and limited railway-tickets.

My primary object is to provide a machine of this character particularly adapted to the purpose of stamping and vending insurancetickets, though it will appear that the invenit tion may be put to other purposes of the nature suggested. l

In the preferred construction the machine is adapted to operate on a three -coup0n ticket, one coupon of which it severs from the main ticket and deposits in an individual compartment of a chambered magazine along printed and producing an impression, includ.

ing, also, a coupon-severing knife, a chainbered combined coin and coupon receiver actuated at each operation of the machine to bring a fresh chamber into position for receiving the next coin and severed coupon, and a ticket-delivery chute.

The invention is shown in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings, in

which---- 7 i Figure 1 represents a View in side elevation, one side of the casing being removed; Fig. 2, a similar view at the opposite side of the machine; Fig. 3, a rear view with the rear side of the casing removed; Fig. 4, an

enlarged broken view, diagrammaticjn its nature, showing the levers employed; Fig. 5, a plan section taken as indicated at line 5 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6, a broken vertical sectional view taken as indicated at line 6 of Fig. 4; Fig. 7, a view of the ticket employed; Fig. 8, a broken sectional view illustrating the chambered coin and coupon receiver and the means for delivering coins and coupons thereto; Fig. 9, a vertical sectional view of the ticket-magazine, taken as indicated at line 9 of Fig. 3; Fig. 10, a horizontal sectional view of the ticket-magazine, taken as indicated at line 10 of Fig. 4; Fig. 11, an en larged broken view of the ticket-depressing device cooperating with the ticket-magazine the detached coin and coupon receiver in its extended condition; Fig. 13, a vertical sec-' tional view of said receiver in its fully charged and collapsed condition, the section being taken as indicated at line 13 of Fig. 14; Fig. 14, a horizontal sectional view of the same, taken on line 14 of Fig. 13; and Fig. 15, a perspective view of the escapement mechanism for the gravity-actuated member of the coin and coupon receiver.

A represents a casing formed with a front side A, left and right sides A A respectively, and a rear side A A A A and A frame members projecting rearwardly from the front wall of the casing and servinglo carry the operative parts; B B, duplicate time-stamps in horizontal alinemeut; B a clock provided with a niinutehand arbor B which serves to operate the time-stamps; B a clock-dial; C C', platens or tympans cooperating with the time-stamps; D, a ticketmagazine located, above the platens, Fig. 3,

and having an open front end, Figs. 9 and D of the ticket-magazine; E, a vertically-reciprocable ticket-feeding slide equipped with racks E; F, a transversely-extending rockshaft having one end projecting through the side A of the casing and equipped with an operating-lever F; F a stop-plate for the lever F; F gear-sectors on the shaft F, meshing with the racks E; F, a spring serving through the medium of an arm F to restore the rock-shaft F to its original position; F a stop-arm carried by the shaft F; F, an arm carried by the shaft F and serving to actuate a link F F an arm carried by the shaft F and serving to actuate a link F F an arm carried by the shaft F and serving to actuate a coin-slot-closing slide; G, a platen and coin and coupon magazine actuating shaft parallel with the shaft F and equipped with an arm G, connected with the lower end of'the link F G arms carried by the shaft G and pivotally connected with platen- .actuating links G G a shaft parallel with the shaft G and equipped with platen-supporting links G G Fig. 5, arms connected with the pivotally-supported platens, the

I rearextremities of said arms being connected, by means of springs G with the sleeve G on theshaft G; G", an arm carried by the shaft Grand serving to actuate a link G H, Fig. 1, an arm pivotally connected at its front end with the frame member A and having an adjustable section H connected with the 15, anescapement device for the gravityactuated member 1 the same being operated by the member H; J, Fig. 4, a knife-actuatinglever having bolt-and-slot connection at J with the lower end of the link F J a knife pivoted at J and operated by the arm J; K, a fixed chute-section, which serves to deliver the coin and severed coupon to a pas- F Figs. 3 and 4; N, Fig. 2, a slot-closing sage K, Figs. 4 and 8, leading to a slot K with which the upper wallof the receiver member I is provided; K a movable coin-chute section carried by aspringK ,which tends normally to hold it in the position of the dotted lines of Fig. 8; K a coin-chute leading to the open end of the chute-section K L, Figs. 3, 5, 6, and 8, a transversely-extending bell-crankform coin-stop, pivotally secured at b and having a rearwardly-extending extremity b projecting through a slot 12 with which the movable coin-chute section K is provided; L, an adjustable weight for balancing the lever L; L ,an upwardly'and outwardly projecting arm in which said lever terminates and which serves to engage the stop-arm F of the shaft F; M, a cam-arm firmly connected with the chute-section K 'and engaged by an inwardly-projecting stud c,carried by the arm slide provided at its lower en'dfwith a lug d normally engaged by a .stud d, with which the frontend ot' the arm F is provided; N, a rock-shaft provided with an arm N which serves when the receiver I is filled to move the arm F laterally and disengage the stud d from the lug d, permitting the slide N to close the coin-slot N a transversely-extending rock-shaft equipped with an arm N connected by a link N with an arm N on the rock-shaft N; N a rearwardly-projecting arm through the medium of which the rockshaft N is actuated, the rear extremity of said arm being in the path of a stud N with which the upper rear end of the receiver member I is equipped; P, a ticket-delivery chute having its upper end located beneath the platens C C and terminating at its lower end in a trough or receptacle P; Q, a coupon-receptacle connected with the front end of the casing and communicated with by a couponslot f, and R tickets adapted for use with the improved machine.

The time-stamps employed are of a wellknown construction, the only feature of novelty connected therewith being the feature of actuating both time-stamps from the same minute-arbor of aclock. The clock is of the ordinary construction and is provided with winding means 9. The platens are provided with suitable slightly yielding material for receiving impressions from the time-stamps andare supported in the novel manner shown and operated by the toggle-joint mechanism shown. For the purpose of supplying ink to the type I provide a transversely-extending ribbon S, carried by vertically-disposed spindles S, journaled in a suitable ribbon-frame S The ribbon is shifted when desired by winding upon one of the spindles S and unwinding from the other one.

The ticket-magazine D is equipped at its top with adjusting-screws h, through the medium of which the slide D carrying the fingers D, is adjusted. The rear end D of the ticket-magazine is pivoted at its lower edge and latched at its upper edge, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 9. This permits the magazine to be opened and recharged conveniently. At its lower Wall, at the front margin thereof, the ticket-magazine is equipped with an adjustable downturned finger h, Fig. 10, the front surface 71 of which lies slightly in front of the front end of the ticketmagazine, so as to provide a slightly ofiset corner h over which the ticket being fed down to the time-stamps must pass. The slide .E has a lower edge h, which engages the upper edge of the ticket to be fed, and said slide is provided with vertical slots h to accommodate the fingers D. The slide is equipped with aspring h*, which is in alinement with the finger h, so that when the slide is depressed and a ticket carried downwardly the ticket is held between the spring h and the finger h during the downward movement. The racks E are provided toward'their upper ends with smooth surfaces hand above said smooth surfaces with on;

sets or shoulders 70. The slide E is mounted shown by the full lines of Figs. 4 and 8.

remains stationary during the further move ment of the gear-sectors. The arm F is provided with a pin Z, which works in a slot Z,

with which the link F is provided, so that during the first movement of the lever Fand while the slide E is being actuated thereis no actuation of the link F After the slide E reaches the lower end of its traverse and while the gear-sectors F move idly over the smooth surfaces is the link F is actuated thereby to actuate the rock-shaft G and operate the platens. The arm F is provided with a stud m, which engages a slot m, with which the link F is provided, so that the arm F acts idly until the slide E reaches the lower end of its traverse, after which the link F is actuated andthe knife J moved to sever the coupon which is toremain in the machine from the main body of the ticket. The are of movement of the knife may be varied by the bolt-and-slot connection at J.

As indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, one wall of the chute-section K is provided with a slot at, in alinement with the space n between the time-stamp ribbon and the platens, and, as shown in Fig. 8, the chute-section K has a free or open upper end when the chute-section K is in its normal position of rest. (Indicated by the full lines in Fig. 8.) The ticket B. after being 'fed downwardly to the time stamp has the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6, a coupon projecting through the slot it into the chute-section K, In the normal position of rest the lever F occupies the position shown in Fig.4, and the stud c thereon operates upon the cam-arm M and serves to hold the movable chute-section K against the force of its spring in the position In this position the rearwardly-turned end I) of the coin-stop lever L projects into the movable chute-section, so that when a coin is dropped into the machine it strikes said end I), tilts the lever L, and moves the projection L from the path of the arm F thereby permitting the machine to be operated. When the machine is operated, the stud 0 moves downwardly along the cam-arm M and permits the chute-section K 'to be' moved by the force of its spring to the position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 8. Thus the coin is carried by the movable chute-section until it is freed from the end I) of the stud L, after which the coin drops into the chute-section K and passes to the coin and coupon receiver.

When .the knife J which has a shearing action with one of the walls of the slot 11 of the chute-section K,severs a coupon from a ticket, the coupon drops through the chute K and is delivered to the receiver 1 being received by the same compartment of said receiver as receivesthe coin which has served to operate or permit operation of the machine. The

movable mem oer I of the coin and coupon receiver is supplied with open-ended vertical compartments 19, each of which serves to receive a coupon and the coin employed for securing the ticket corresponding with said coupon.

The escapement I comprises a rock-shaft 19, an arm 19 through the medium of which said rock-shaft is actuated, a head 19 carrying pivotally-connected stops 19 19 and a jspringp which serves normally to hold the rock-shaft in the position indicated in Fig. 12. The adjustable arm-section H of the arm H is provided with two studs 19 p ,which positively control the movement of the lever 19 The link Gr has adjustable connection with the section H at 19 as shown in Fig. 4. The manner in which the escapement operates to permit the receiver 1 to be gradually fed downward by gravity is clearly illustrated in Fig. 8, from which it will appear that the stops 19 19 alternately engage difierent compartmentsof the receiver member I and permit said receiver member to be feddown a distance corresponding to the thickness of one compartment at each reciprocation of the arm H. The stationary receiver member I is pro vided with a slot 19 which receives the stud N when the receiver is in the collapsed con dition. The upper end of the receiver I is open, as shown. The lower end is provided with a hinged cover g, which may be secured in the closed position by means of lugs g g and a seal (1 Fig. 12. At its lower end the receiver member I is provided with a shaft g perpendicular to the bottom side of the receiver member, and said shaft is equipped with a catch g which engages a slot g in the lower end wall of the receiver member 1 thereby locking said receiver member inthe closed or collapsed position. Said shaft g is equipped with a spring q, which serves to hold the catch in looking engagement. An arm g serves as a means for releasing the catch after the door q has been open.

The ticket R comprises a purchasers coupon r, a company return-coupon 1", and a company retained coupon T The coupons are provided with acorn mon identifying character, which in the ticket shown in Fig. 7 is the number 25'. Each coupon is also marked with the companys name and the amount of insurance? Ordinarily the coupons r 0" have printed thereon the terms of insurance. The coupon q" is supplied with words indicating that the coupon is to be retained by the purchaser, and the coupon r is provided with a purchasers signatureblank and with words indicating that it is to be signed and deposited in the couponslot of the machine. During the operation of the machine the date, hour, and minute of the purchase is stamped upon the couponsrr. The coupon r is connected with the coupon 'r" at a perforate line 1 so that the coupons may be readily separated. The coupon r is of considerably-reduced size IIC and is connected 'with the coupon 'r" by a neck r 2. light dotted line '1" serving to indicate the place where the knife severe the coupon r from the coupon r. 'The ticketmagazine is provided at one side with a longitudinal slot 1", through which the necks "r of the tickets project.

The operation and manner of use will be readily understood from the foregoing detailed description. The ticket-magazine D is preparatorily charged with tickets resting oh their longitudinal edges, as indicated in Fig. 10. The purchaser deposits a coin-say a quarter of a dollar-in the coin-slot of the machine, and the coin falling upon the end I) of the lever L tilts said lever and unlocks the rock-shaft F. The purchaser now actuates' the crank F, the first result of which is to depress the ticket-delivery slide E, during which movement the arms F F act idly on the links F F After the slide E has ceased its downward movement, the ticket having now been brought into position to be stamped and the coupon 1' thereof into position to fall through the chute K, the platens and knife are actuated to stamp the coupons '1" r and sever the coupon r from the coupon 1". During the movement of the rock-shaft G which ensues after the pinl has encountered the lower end of the slot Z the arm G ismoved and the escapement I actuated. In the meantime the coin has already been freed from the stop L and, with the coupon r has passed into a chamber of the receiver member 1 When the pressure upon the lever F is released, the spring F serves to restore the parts to their original positions. At each actuation of the machine the coin-slot-closing slide N is actuated, said slide dropping of its own weight when the arm F is depressed and being raised by said arm during the return movement thereof. Then the receiver I is filled, the stud N encounters the free end of the lever N and operates to throw the arm N outward, as will be understood from Fig. 2, thereby moving the pin 61' out of engagement with the lug b of the coin-slot-closing slide and preventing the slide from being raised to its elevated position, it being understood that in the elevated position of said slide the coin-slot is open and in the depressed position thereof the coin-slot is closed. It will be understood that while the parts'of the Working mechanism are being restored to their original positions the spring K releases its hold upon the time stamped main body of the ticket and the latter falls into the delivery-chute P and is received by the purchaser. The purchaser, in accordance with instructions printed on the ticket, signs the coupon r, detaches it from the coupon r, deposits it in the coupon-slot of the machine, and retains the coupon r. Thus the company has both the coupon "r and the coupon r corresponding with the coupon r and is in possession of the purchasers signature. Inasmuch as the coupon 1' passes, with the purchasers coin, into an'individual compartment, the company is safeguarded against the use of bogus coin,

since the evidence of any fraud in this respect will be at hand and payment of insurance would be refused. When the coin and coupon receiver is filled, it is detached from the machine and taken to an office of the company, where the seal (1 is broken and the latch g moved to unlock the receiver member 1 after which the receiver member is moved step by step and the coin and coupon from each receptacle examined. If a bogus coin is found, a record is kept, so that the company is able to avoid payment of insurance in case of fraud.

It is obvious that many changes in details of construction Within the spirit of my invention may be made.

Any coin-controlled mechanism may be employed, whether the coin operates simply to release manually-actuated mechanism, to release spring or power actuated mechanism, or to form for the time being an element of the mechanism.

It is evident that in so far as my invention relates purely to coin-controlled machines the gist of the invention lies in employing, in combination with a time-stamp, coin-controlled means which serve to control the delivery of the tickets.

Preferably the mechanism for effecting a delivery of the ticket from the ticket-magazine to the time-stamp and from the timeslamp to the purchaser, the mechanism for effecting the stamping of the ticket, the mechanism for operating the knife, and the mechanism for operating the movable receiver are all GOiH-COUU'OHQG. Changes in arrangement maybe made, however, and some of the parts enumerated may be omitted, the fundamental idea of the invention being that of a timestamp and coin-controlled means controlling the delivery of a time-stamped ticket to the purchaser. Obviously the tickets may be of any desired form and construction. The tick-v ets may be formed separately or connectedly. Obviously it is advantageous to have the several coupons of each ticket connected, though this is not deemed indispensable.

The description of the machine has been given in detail merely for clearness of under: standing, and no undue limitation should be understood therefrom.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machineof the character described, the combination of a clock-controlled timestamp, a chambered receiver for detached -ticket-coupons, a ticketsupply source receivingindividual Iickets,and coin-controlled mechanism for efiecting time-stamping of a ticket, severing thereof, and delivery of one coupon of the severed ticket to the exterior of the machine and of one coupon of thesame ticket to said receiver.

2. In a machine of the character described,

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the combination of ticket-feeding means, a chambered coin and coupon receiver, automatic means for delivering acoin and coupon to a chamber of said receiver, said delivery means and receiver being relatively movable, a coin-slot, and coin-controlled mechanism governing the relative movements between said receiver and the means for delivering a coin and coupon thereto.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a time-stamp, ticket-feeding means, a chambered oin and coupon receiver, means for deliveringa coin and conpon to a chamberol' said receiver, said delivery means and receiver being relatively movable, a coin-slot, and coin-controlled mechanism governing the relative movements between said receiver and themeans for delivering a coin and coupon thereto.

4;. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a ticket'feeding device, a coin-chute, a movable coin and coupon receiver, automatic means for delivering a coin and coupon thereto, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the movement of said receiver.

5. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a ticket-feeding device, a coin and coupon receiver comprising a stationary member and a gravity-actuated chambered member, a coin-chute, automatic means for delivering a coin and coupon to said receiver, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the movement'of the movable member of said receiver.

6. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a ticket-feeding device, a potentially-movable chambered coin and conpon receiver, an escapement for said receiver, a coin-chute, automatic means for delivering a coin and coupon to said receiver, and coincontrolled mechanism controlling said escapement.

7. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a ticket-feeding device, an inclined gravity-fed chambered coin and conpon receiver, a coin-chute, means for delivering a coin and coupon to said receiver, an escapement for said receiver, and coin-controlled means regulating the movement of said esoapement.

8. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a time-stamp, ticket-feeding mechanism, a coin and coupon receiver having chambers for segregating coins and coupons, so that the corresponding coins and coupons may be identified, means for delivering coins and coupons to said receiver, said means and said receiver being relatively movable,and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the relative movement between said receiver and the means for delivering coins and coupons thereto.

9. In a machine of the character described,

the combination of a time-stamp, ticket-feed ing means, a chambered receiver, a coinchute, means for delivering a coin and coupon a coupon, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the feeding of the tickets and the relative movement between said receiver and the means for delivering coins and coupons thereto. i

10. Inamachineofthecharacterdescribed, the combination of a time-stamp,a ticketmagazine, a ticket-feeding slide, a ticket-severing device, a chambered coin and coupon receiver, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the feeding of the tickets, the severing of the coupons and the depositing of the coins and coupons.

11. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a time-stamp, a ticketmagazine, a potentially-movable chambered coin and coupon receiver, a ticket-feeding device, a coupon-severing device, and coin-controlled means controlling the feeding of the tickets, the severing of the coupons, and the movement of said receiver.

12. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a. time-stamp, a ticketmagazine,a ticket-feeding slide, a couponsevering device, and a coin-controlled shaft serving to operate said slide and coupon-severing device.

13. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a time-stamp, a ticketmagazine, a ticket-feeding slide, a movable chambered coin and coupon receiver, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the actuation of said slide and receiver.

14. In a machine of the character described, the combination of two time-stamps, a clock serving to actuate both said time-stamps, ticket-feeding means, a coupon -receptacle having free communication with the outside of the casing of the machine, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling'the delivery to the purchaser of a time-stamped ticket.

15. In a machine of the character described, the combination of two time-stamps, a clock serving to actuate both said time-stamps, ticket-feeding means, a coupon-receptacle having free communication with the outside of the casing of the machine, a movable chambered coin and coupon receiver, and coin-controlled means controlling the movement of said receiver and the delivery to the purchaser of a time-stamped ticket.

16. In a machine of the character described, the combination of two time-stamps, a clock serving to actuate both said time-stamps, ticke'bfeeding means, a coupon-receptacle having communication with'the outside of thecasing of the machine, a movable chambered coin and coupon receiver, a couponsevering device, and coin-controlled mechanism controlling the movement of said receiver, the actuation of said severing device, and the delivery to the purchaser of a timestamped ticket.

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17. In a machine of the character described,

the combination of a stamping device, including a movable platen, a ticket-magazine, a ticket-feeding slide equipped with a rack, a coin-controlled shaft equipped with a gearsector having idle connection with said rack during a portion of the movement of said shaft, a platen-actuating shaft, and lost-motion connection between said shafts, whereby the platen is actuated after the ticket has been fed into position by said slide.

18. In amachine of the character described, the combination of ticket-feeding means, a coin-chute, a coin and coupon receiver, means for delivering a coin and coupon to said receiver, said means and said receiver being relatively movable, coin-controlled mechanism for operating said parts, including a looking device having a projection extending into the path of the coin, and a movable chutesection operating during the actuation of the machine to disengage the coin from said projection.

19. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a movable chambered coin and coupon receiver, a coin chute, a slot-closing device, and means carried by said receiver and controlling said slot-closing device whereby the coin-slot is closed after said receiver is filled, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

20. In a machine of the character described, the combination of time-stamp mechanism supplied with duplicate sets of time-stamping wheels, mechanism for simultaneously feeding two coupons to the duplicate sets of wheels, an internal chambered receiver for receiving a coupon, means for delivering both time-stamped coupons to the exterior of the machine, means for delivering a corresponding coupon to said internal receiver, and coincontrolled means for controlling said feeding and delivery mechanisms, for the purpose set forth.

21. In a machine of the characterdescribed, the combination of a time-stamp supplied With duplicate sets of time-stamping wheels, and coincontrolled mechanism, including means for feeding three coupon-tickets to bring two coupons of each ticket simultaneously beneath said two sets of wheels, means for severing the third coupon from each ticket, a receiver for said third coupons inaccessible to the purchaser, and means for delivering the time-stamped coupons to the purchaser, for the purpose set forth.

ELLSWORTH E. FLORA.

In presence of- L. HEISLAR,

ALBERT D. BACCI. 

